Computer monitor for mixing....is there too big?

I use the LG DualUp which is just perfect for mixing.

For one, vertical screen real estate is more important than horizontal. And for another it's easier to get it out of the way of your monitors.

I think this thing wasn't popular because it's kind of weird, but it's perfect for this if you ask me.



www.lg.com/us/monitors/lg-28mq780-b-dualup-monitor

I’ve been using a wall mounted TV.. 32” 4K. It started out of necessity as a temp solution. After using it a bit it has become normal. The thing I like is I’m never adjusting where the screen is. It’s not in front of my speakers, so that’s nice. I can watch something like a movie or video and feel like I’m at home, that’s probably my favorite thing. That and using the remote to turn off the screen, and feel like I’m all analog for a bit.

The only downsides is not really bad, it scales 1080p for 4k so it’s not MacBook crisp, it’s a little blurry. Even a 4K monitor isn’t, as not a lot of 4K Daw development for DAW, at least for Reaper last I checked. I bought a 4k Samsung monitor and theme (metric) which looks amazing, but not as functional as stock theme, so I rarely ever use it. And windows scaling is a bit strange, I could never get win10/11 to match my 2012 MacBook quality. I gave the monitor to my son for his PS5. Still it’s a fun theme if you have hiDPI screen… jrengmusic.com/metric/

Wil just say I downsized from a 27” imac to a 24” budget monitor and I miss both the crispness of the imac and the additional screen real estate. I think once you get used to a certain size I wouldn’t go smaller

Cheers,
Geoff

I don't know if it's still a thing, but for a while Pro Tools was really having trouble with 4K displays (it could not scale properly and would do weird stuff).  I'm using two 24" curved (Samsung) monitors) but could probably be happy with a single 34" wide.  One reason I'm using a couple 1080p displays is that when you go 4K everything gets really tiny...  So for now, edit window in on the left display and mix is on the right. Sometimes wouldn't mind a 3rd monitor for the interface's "console" (currently the Orion 32+ control panel) but I get by just switching to it when needed - nowhere to put a 3rd monitor anyway. 

We have a 48" curved ASUS ROG screen between our Dynaudio Lyds.

So here's the deal.  I went through this some time ago and it's not as simple as it seems.

Lets say you have a 32" screen and it's HD (1920x1080px) so that means there is 69 pixels per in (PPI) for a pixel pitch of 0.015".

A 32" 4K (3840x2160) would have 138PPI and a pixel pitch of 0.008", which is very roughly double the pixels and half the pitch.  

Going up to 4K on the same size screen at the same distance you have now would half the apparent size of everything on your screen using the native resolution.  

Ask yourself, do you really want to have everything on your screen half the size?  

Now ask yourself, at what distance do you want to use it?  

Moving the screen further away, you'd need to increase the size considerably to get the same viewing angle.  Going from 2ft viewing at 1080 would be roughly equivalent to 4K at 6ft away.

So you need to balance the viewing angle and the pixel pitch so that you don't push the monitor so far away that you lose the usable angle but you also don't want the pitch to be so small that you need the monitor to be too close to easily see all the screen.



For me, I found that 2K (2560x1440) was perfect at 32" for what I needed.  I kept it about 2ft away and increased the size and pitch slightly (went from 1080 24") and it's sharper, bigger and I can still easily see the fonts without being able to see the pixels themselves.  I tried a 32" 4k screen and seeing all the fonts and lines was actually really hard even at 2ft distance.  I got a lot more real estate on the screen but it was so much harder to read things, it wasn't worth it.  

Also, getting a 4K screen and then up-rezzing (running it at a lower native resolution) doesn't work well.  It ends up blurry looking and makes it hard to read small fonts as well, and negates the 4K costs.  It's much better going with a lower resolution monitor in this case.

I also used two monitors for a while and that line between them is ANNOYING.  You'd think you'd get used to it but I couldn't and I just went with a single monitor after a while.

I had to search for a while to find an ultra-wide monitor that was not curved. Having a large flat panel reflecting sound between speakers is bad enough, no need to add something that's the opposite of a polycylindrical diffusor. I ended up with an LG, and it's fine. 

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This.

I have to have my screen 1 meter from my eyes, as that’s the distance my glasses correct to.

Therefore, as I said …. I will lot use a screen larger than 24”